Project Management Training Institute
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Great Guidance for CAPM Exam Prep
I took the PMTI CAPM Exam Prep Course, or Boot Camp, to prepare for the PMI CAPM Exam. PMTI gives very good customer service and is responsive to questions. They know the path and are good about providing emails with guidance and what to know in terms of steps and direction that guide you through the training post training and through the exam. The training instructor was excellent and explained things very well. The student portal and study materials, especially the practice tests, helped give me confidence to take the exam. Because of my crammed schedule, I took 6 months between training and exam. This was the best way for me, since the training is like drinking from a firehose. I needed to absorb the material over time. My number 1 constructive criticism for PMTI is to quality check the Blue Book and the practice tests. While very helpful, I found a lot of English grammar issues and typos that slow down comprehension. This book has pages that are not relevant or don't add value. I also found that concepts and topics are not settled in context very well or not properly connected to related concepts. I suggest a good quality check of this book to remove all unnecessary pages and to logically group related concepts. I am sure this can be done with some project management SMEs and a good English editor to make sure each module reads and flows well from the beginning to the end. I think the modules themselves are in good order. Regarding the practice tests, I suggest, similarly to the above suggestion, to have a good English editor and SME go through all the practice tests to clean up the bad grammar, bad sentence structure, and typos. The actual PMI exam, English version, is written in very good English. It was much easier to understand the questions and answer choices on the actual exam than it was on the PMTI practice tests. While doing the practice tests, the grammar mistakes really distracted from understanding the question, resulting in extra time to digest the actual scenario presented and the answers. On the actual test, there were many questions with terminology and concepts that were new to me, I didn't remember seeing them in the Blue Book or practice tests. I don't know if it's possible since PMI probably doesn't share their full pool of questions, but I recommend incorporating a wider exposure to the PMI concepts in the book and tests. This review is totally meant to be constructive in a positive way. I could not have achieved a passing grade on the exam without help from PMTI course and materials. My suggestions are meant to help you meet the "stakeholder requirements" better through good "control quality" and "manage quality" activities. Thank you, PMTI, very much for walking me through this process to a successful end.